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0. M. YARBOROUGH. PLANT PROTECTOR.

Patented Aug. 13, 1889* UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CORA MONTROSE YARBOROUGH, OF DURHAM, NORTH OAROLINA,ASSIGNOR TO JAMES H.LYNNE, OF SAME PLACE.

PLANT-PROTECTO R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 409,133, dated August13, 1889.

Application filed February 25, 1889. Serial No. 301,109. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern; pose of affording holding-jaws for theradial Be it known that I, CORA MONTROSE YAR- edges of the shield, whichare inserted be- BOROUGH, a citizen of the United States, retween.siding at Dnrham,in the county of Durham B is the segmental shield,having its ra- 55 5 and State of North Carolina, have invented dialedges inserted between the jaws formed certain new and usefulImprovements in by the strip 1). c are the points or extremitiesPlant-Protectors; and I do declare the folof the legs, sharpened toenter the ground. lowing to be a full, clear, and exact descrip- \Vhenin use, the points are inserted into tion of the invention such as willenable the ground on each side of the plant sufli- 60 To others skilledin the art to which it apperciently close to cause the shield B tosurtains to make and use the same, reference round or partially incloseit, as shown in Fig. being had to the accompanying drawings, and 1.WVhen not in use, the elasticity of the to the letters and figures ofreference marked frame, it being formed of spring-wire, causes thereon,which form a part of this specificathe shield to resume its normal orflat shape. 65 I 5 tion. In plant-protectors heretofore employed it Myinvention relates to improvements in has been usual to so construct theshield as plant-protectors; and it consists in certain deto entirelysurround or inclose the plant. tails of construction and arrangement ofSuch construction is objectionable in that it parts hereinafter morespecifically described operates to exclude the light to an injurious 7oin the specification, illustrated in the drawdegree from the plant.Moreover, the shield ings, and pointed out in the claims. is incapableof adjustment, so as to admit a In the drawings, Figure l is aperspective greater or less degree of light, whereas by view of myplantprotector as it appears in my construction one, two, or three sidesmay use. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of same be inclosed, as deemeddesirable, without rna- 75 when not in use. Fig. 3 is a detail sectionalterially interfering with the degree of light view on the line as a,Fig. 2, of one of the or heat required by the growing plant, but atholdingjaws secured to an arm of the frame. the same time affording itprotection from The object of my invention is to provide a the directrays of the sun or from cold winds. simple and cheap device for theprotection of Half-hardy plants may be thus protected 80 young andgrowing plants from severe winds during an entire winter by increasingthe and extremes of heat and cold, and to render size of the protectoror employing two or the same adjustable, so that it may be made more. toafford varying degrees of protection, as In some instances it isdesirable to shield the circumstances may require. In aecomthe plantfrom cold winds without excluding 85 3 5 plishing this result I providea shield to be the suns rays. In such cases the shield may placedbetween the plant and the rays of the be composed of mica or othersubstance sun or the direction of the wind. This which is elastic andtransparent or partially shield is in the form of the segmentof acirtransparent. ole, made of any thin elastic material In the case ofhalf -hardy plants that re 0 4 such as pasteboard, wood, tin, oil-cloth,&c. quire more or less protection during the enand capable of being bentso as to partially tire winter the shield may be made transor nearlysurround the plant, as shown in parent or semi-transparent, and two ormore Fig. 1. This shield has its radial edges seprotectors may beemployed in order to encured to a spring-frame having pointed legstirely surround the plant and shield it from 9 5 projecting beyond theedges of the shield, to the cold winds, while at the same timeadbe'inserted into the ground. mitting the requisite amount of lightrequired Referring to the drawings by letter, A is by the plant. thespring-frame, having the coil a at its N is a coil formed at the top orapex of the center, and b is a narrow strip of tin folded frame, whichserves as a loop and enables the 100 inward over the arms of the frameand solprotector to be suspended from a nail or hook dered or otherwisesecured thereto for the purwhen not in use.

As these protectors, when not in use, are caused by the elasticity ofthe frame to ,assume a fiat shape, it is obvious that a number of themmay be packed closely together 5 and suspended in bunches or bundlesfiOlll a 15 tween the holding-jaws, substantially as described.

The combination, in a plant-protector, of the two-sided metallicspring-frame, the inwardly-facing jaws secured to the opposite sides ofthe frame, and the pliable or elastic shield secured between the jawswithin the frame, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CORA MON'IROSE YARBOROUGIL Vitnesses:

W. J. HOLLOWAY. Lao D. IIEARTT.

